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authorRob Landley <rob@landley.net>2006-03-06 19:31:39 +0000
committerRob Landley <rob@landley.net>2006-03-06 19:31:39 +0000
commit1f5e25bf3eca768b8cee1c689ac154d8f51662f9 (patch)
tree515cdddb86c5244e7eb14f0a723e8d41d7541723
parent2e9cf373a95b7b73b60e95372c1cc9192ce3ac3f (diff)
Walt Wimer noticed that mknod couldn't handle major or minor > 255. Now our
limit checking autodetects what the system supports (at compile time).
-rw-r--r--coreutils/mknod.c6
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/coreutils/mknod.c b/coreutils/mknod.c
index 7b2467b8f..b6e85272d 100644
--- a/coreutils/mknod.c
+++ b/coreutils/mknod.c
@@ -47,8 +47,10 @@ extern int mknod_main(int argc, char **argv)
dev = 0;
if ((*name != 'p') && ((argc -= 2) == 2)) {
- dev = (bb_xgetularg10_bnd(argv[2], 0, 255) << 8)
- + bb_xgetularg10_bnd(argv[3], 0, 255);
+ /* Autodetect what the system supports; thexe macros should
+ * optimize out to two constants. */
+ dev = makedev(bb_xgetularg10_bnd(argv[2], 0, major(UINT_MAX)),
+ bb_xgetularg10_bnd(argv[3], 0, minor(UINT_MAX)));
}
if (argc == 2) {